Lessons and 2025 Emerging Trends” chapter of our annual report, Consumer Financial Services: 2024 Year in Review.
Policymakers need to stop pretending that ever-expanding mortgage leverage is the solution.
Past efforts to restructure bank supervision have been derailed by politics and agency turf wars. It remains to be seen whether the Trump administration is willing to spend the political capital ...
Trump critics are hypocrites who didn't criticize Biden power grabs. They are also ignorant of major constitutional crises ...
Ever since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened in 2011 with a mandate to regulate financial institutions, its detractors have tried to eliminate it. They have questioned its ...
New car prices could increase $4,000 or more, according to one estimate. And used cars could also rise in price. “It’s a ...
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ March 9 The Washington Post says Americans need the CFPB Ever since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened in 2011 with ...
Alternative options if you're the victim of unfair and abusive practices as the consumer watchdog 'winds down.' ...
The beneficiaries of a weakened CFPB are clear: big banks, payday lenders, debt collectors, and financial institutions that ...
Controversy Over the U.S. Crypto Reserve Plan Trump’s recently announced plan to create a U.S. crypto reserve has caused a ...
The apparent decision to keep supervision inert could run counter to claims the CFPB has made in court that it remains committed to meeting its legal obligations. The agency has denied in ...
At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... Founded in 2010 by Senator Elizabeth Warren, the CFPB was established to monitor credit card companies, mortgage providers, ...